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Advice to families beginning the college search: Don’t screen schools based on published tuition prices, according to a USA Today report. And many students can get thousands of dollars — even tens of thousands of dollars — in grants that don’t have to be paid back.
PRIVATE TOP 10
1. Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, Pa.)
2. Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.)
3. Williams College (Williamstown, Mass.)
4. Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.)
5. Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.)
6. Yale University (New Haven, Conn.)
7. Rice University (Houston)
8. Hamilton College (Clinton, N.Y.)
9. Claremont McKenna College (Claremont, Calif.)
10. Grinnell College (Grinnell, Iowa)